Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

by Da’Shaun Harrison

**The 2022 Lammy Award Winner in Transgender Nonfiction**
Exploring the intersections of Blackness, gender, fatness, health, and the violence of policing.

To live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by state and society, passed over for housing and jobs, and derided and misdiagnosed by medical professionals, fat Black people...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623175976
• ISBN13: 9781623175979
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"